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Oct. 19, 2009

	AGRICULTURE The hardest harvest (Spokesman-Review) State may pay wolf-kill damages (AP/Spokesman-Review) OREGON: State OK’d to certify organic farms (Olympian) State spud growers, processors working on deal (Tri-City Herald - Sunday) Hard frost hits Washington wine country (Tri-City Herald - Saturday) Waiting for water (Wenatchee World - Saturday) BUDGET & TAXES Car tab fees may help keep state parks open (Everett Herald) BUSINESS, INDUSTRY & ECONOMY Obama looking at all options for creating jobs (AP/Seattle P-I) Big Tacoma developer files for Chapter 11 (Olympian) Boeing to lease JAL hangar (Columbia Basin Herald - Friday) OPINION: It's like a full-time gig (Michele Matassa Flores/Crosscut.com) OPINION: Money measures: Tunnel vision on Oregon's economy (John Killin, Oregon Small Business Coalition/Oregonian) COLUMN: All that federal money came with strings attached (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Workers' comp one more drag on business (Longview Daily News - Sunday) COURTS, CRIME & LAW ENFORCEMENT Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP/Bellingham Herald) Sophisticated pot fields a growing problem (Spokesman-Review) Former Miss Washington backs domestic violence bill (Yakima Herald-Republic - Sunday) Criminal justice sales tax: 'If we lose this, it will be devastating' (Yakima Herald-Republic - Saturday) Ex-teacher sentenced for sex with teen student (The Columbian - Saturday) OPINION: If Maple Lane closes, it’s a victim of Dem politics (Sen. Dan Swecker/The Chronicle) EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES Boeing builds berms against Green River flooding (AP/Bellingham Herald) Feds won't help Nile Valley homeowners, Gregoire says (Yakima Herald-Republic - Saturday) Nile residents face long cutoff (Yakima Herald-Republic - Saturday) Opinions vary on role gravel pit may have played in landslide (Seattle Times/ Yakima Herald-Republic - Friday) ENERGY & UTILITIES Sound cars about to get plugged in (Olympian) Save energy, money with new windows this winter (Yakima Herald-Republic) Project aims to plump native oyster population on Discovery Bay, other havens (Peninsula Daily News) EDITORIAL: There's real power in energy conservation (Oregonian - Sunday) HEALTH CARE Health care reform does little to end medical errors (Seattle P-I) Adviser: Obama waits on finished health care bill (AP/Olympian) Health care issues: What president, Congress have (AP/Bellingham Herald) Sharing strengths (Spokesman-Review) Judge rules in favor of Port Angeles medical center on three of five claims by doctor; doctor continues suit (Peninsula Daily News) OPINION: Health care reform - it's sausage making time in Congress (Larry Donohue/Seattle P-I) HIGHER EDUCATION UI chief: Higher ed underfunded too long (Spokesman-Review) LOCAL GOVERNMENT Employees accuse Pierce County assessor (News Tribune - Sunday) COLUMN: At Port of Tacoma, transparency has become a lost virtue (Peter Callaghan/The News Tribune - Thursday) MEDIA Hispanics need better broadband access, forum speaker says (Yakima Herald-Republic - Friday) BLOG: P-I's demise inspires a theatrical response (John Levesque/Seattle P-I) BLOG: Obama official: Fox "not news" (Seattle P-I) MILITARY Community salutes work of Bravo Company (Yakima Herald-Republic) OPINION: Obama delays his promise to gays (Clarence Page, Tribune/Kitsap Sun - Sunday)
	POLITICS
		BALLOT MEASURES I-1033 could hit higher ed especially hard (Seattle Times) U.S. Supreme Court asked to hear R-71 case (AP/Spokesman-Review) Voters to settle issue of rights for same-sex couples (Everett Herald - Sunday) Vote on partners divides county (Olympian - Sunday) BLOG: Tuesday hearing scheduled on release of R-71 signatures (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I - Friday) OPINION: No to I-1033 (Jerry Cummins/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) OPINION: Yes to I-1033 (Tim Eyman/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) OPINION: I-1033 Pro: Initiative restores fiscal sanity to state budget process (Tim Eyman/Bellingham Herald) OPINION: Cute kids, repulsive politics (Gary Crooks/Spokesman-Review) EDITORIAL: Appeals court protects state’s public records law (Olympian) EDITORIAL: Protect existing rights, vote 'approve' on Referendum 71 (Kitsap Sun) EDITORIAL: Initiative 1033 makes cuts the wrong way, at the wrong time (Kitsap Sun - Sunday) EDITORIAL: I-1033 is not the way to cut (Wenatchee World - Saturday) ENDORSEMENT: Referendum 71 -- It's about rights, responsibilities -- Vote yes (Yakima Herald-Republic) ELECTIONS OPINION: Evolution of King County Elections has earned voter confidence (Sherril Huff/Seattle Times - Sunday) EDITORIAL: Pierce County voters should keep ranked-choice voting (Seattle Times - Sunday) LEGISLATURE Nealey grew to embrace politics (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin - Saturday) Grant picks up where father left off (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin - Saturday) ENDORSEMENT: Grant, Nealey outstanding candidates (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin) LOCAL Sides split on proposed "lid lift" levy (The Daily World) Seattle mayoral candidates trade sharp exchanges (Seattle Times) Constantine trimmed budgets, yet some blame him for rise in spending (Seattle Times - Sunday) Hutchison gave symphony a lift, not a permanent fix (Seattle Times - Sunday) Bremerton mayor candidates have similar visions, but different styles (Kitsap Sun - Sunday) Alaskan Way Viaduct tunnel claims: Who's right? (Seattle Times - Saturday) McGinn, Mallahan trade charges of late-campaign lies, distortion (Seattle Times - Saturday) BLOG: Port campaign cries foul over mailer (Seattle P-I) BLOG: Hutchison: State dismissed complaints; State: No we didn't (Chris Grygiel/Seattle P-I - Friday) COLUMN: Election is mired in trivialities, missing the bus (Joel Connelly/Seattle P-I) EDITORIAL: Take a quiz to find your political label (Tri-City Herald) ENDORSEMENT: The Times recommends Susan Hutchison for King County executive (Seattle Times - Saturday)
	SALMON OPINION: Will we continue to protect salmon? (Liz Hamilton, Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association and Mark Heckert, National Wildlife Federation/Longview Daily News - Sunday) STATE GOVERNMENT Gregoire says no fed help to landslide homeowners (Seattle Times) Deck the malls with booze (Everett Herald) TOBACCO EDITORIAL: Smoking ban clearly was the right move (Longview Daily News) TRANSPORTATION City council to vote on move toward tunnel (KIRO TV) Students envision Palouse’s new track (Spokesman-Review) Council considers city's tunnel costs (Seattle Times - Saturday) Pasco's stand on bridge study irks other officials (Tri-City Herald - Saturday) New sensors, signs to smarten up local highways (Seattle Times - Saturday) OPINION: Put debate over bridge tolls in perspective (Brian Gard and Bill Fromhold/The Columbian - Sunday) TRIBES Historic Cape Flattery lighthouse to be turned over to Makah (Peninsula Daily News) WAR AGAINST TERROR Trial record provides account of Oregon jihad camp (AP/Longview Daily News - Sunday) COLUMN: Words from Washington -- Afghanistan (U.S. Congressman Doc Hastings/Daily Sun News) WATER Granger plans well-contamination meeting (Yakima Herald-Republic)

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